I need to introduce one Hebrew word in a document. I have been trying to add an hebrew option in my Babel includepackage command, as in the following code, but it does not work: it triggers a clash with almost all the other packages (in the following examples, all the ones below inputenc).

I'm using sometimes Arabic script, I was adviced to use XeLaTeX instead of LaTeX, and polyglossia package instead of babel. You can check my question about Arabic here: [tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12347/…
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mariaSep 25 '12 at 14:12

Thanks, but I'm not going to change both my software and one of my most common packages just to display one word... Your suggestion might be helpful to other people though.
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EusebiusSep 25 '12 at 14:15

Load inputenc before babel. One of the bad habits of hebrew.ldf is that it loads inputenc if you haven't done it already.
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Ulrike FischerSep 25 '12 at 14:15

As you want, but you don't need to install any new software. You just change the preamble. For me XeLaTeX works better for multilanguage documents.
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mariaSep 25 '12 at 14:18

@maria xelatex is not the software I use, so yes, it would mean switching software.
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EusebiusSep 25 '12 at 14:21

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Pobably this is not a package conflict, but rather the lack of babel support for Hebrew. A possible solution (not tested) is to install the package IvriTeX (Hebrew package for the babel system and LaTeX2e). To install in a Debian system: